Hi, I'm attacking this from ignorance because I am not sure how to even ask the question.
Here is the mission:
I have a list of about 4,000 telephone numbers for past customers. I need to determine how many of these customers are still in business.
Obviously, I could call all the numbers.
But, I could also query whitepages.com's reverse lookup to see if the listing still shows up and eliminate those that don't show up from the list.
I have found out the correct URL to feed whitepages.com
It is
Free People Search | WhitePages
Dropping this into a browser address bar works every time.
I need to automate feeding URLs to whitepages.com and save the results for future analysis.
Using curl -O
Free People Search | WhitePages downloads nothing since there is no static page at
Free People Search | WhitePages.
How can I get curl to "wait" for the results of the query and save that?
Also, if anyone knows of another way to do this, please let me know. In the dark here - the 'services' that do this want $1 a lookup for bulk submission, and offer way more info than I need - which is basically "Is this number still working?"
Thanks!
